A poor hero

"It's nothing. It's just that the restaurant's accounts were wrong recently, but I can't find out what went wrong."

The old shopkeeper lost his initial surprise and spoke calmly.

Chen Chen didn't know how to settle accounts, but it was a piece of cake for him to check the accounts to see what was wrong.

So he patted his chest and said, "Old shopkeeper, just let us help you. We don't want any money anyway."

The old shopkeeper took the two of them to a private room in the restaurant.

There are already two accountants in this private room, who are busy calculating and calculating accounts.

As soon as they saw the old shopkeeper walking in, they immediately stopped.

"Old shopkeeper, the entries in this account book are clear and clear. We have checked it twice. There is really no problem. You must have remembered it wrong, right?"

The tall men in the two counting rooms spoke gloomily.

"If you calculate it again, how come there is no problem? There is no need to ask you to calculate it."

The old shopkeeper changed his previous kindness and said seriously.

The two accountants had no choice but to start calculating again.

They have calculated it more than a dozen times in the past few days, but still haven't found the problem, and they are already very upset.

But they had already collected money from the old shopkeeper, and without the old shopkeeper's permission, it was difficult to quit midway.

"Young man, the business of our restaurant has been very good recently, but the income is [-]% lower than before."

"These two accountants are considered the best in Xu County. As you can see, they have been calculating for several days, but they can't figure out what's wrong with the accounts."

The old shopkeeper picked up one of the account books, handed it to Chen Chen, and said in a low voice.

When Chen Chen heard what the old shopkeeper said, he understood what had happened.

It was the old shopkeeper who suspected that someone in the restaurant had enriched his own pockets and reported false accounts.

Chen Chen took the account book and read it carefully.

In Chen Chen's experience at that time, this kind of falsifying accounts in private restaurants was nothing more than falsifying purchases.

Either the price is false during the procurement process and the purchase price is written high.

Either add false quantities during the purchasing process and write the purchasing quantity high.

The characters above are all traditional Chinese characters, which seemed to be difficult for Chen Chen, but there was no big problem and he could basically understand them.

"Old shopkeeper, this is a fake account."

After looking at it for about a minute, Chen Chen saw something was wrong with the accounts and started speaking directly.

This sentence shocked everyone like thunder on the ground.

The two accounting gentlemen stopped looking at their abacus happily, their eyes lit up, they raised their heads and looked at each other.

They were devastated when they learned that the person speaking was a plainly dressed, skinny boy, not one of their friends.

"Old shopkeeper, where did you find such a young man to fool us? We can't find the problem account. At worst, we will refund the money and give it back to you. There is no need for this."

The tall accountant just now started scolding her immediately.

Continuous high-intensity overtime calculations had already made him restless. At this time, Chen Chen's words ignited the powder keg.

"That's right, old shopkeeper, if you want to find an older accountant, how can we survive in Xu County if you let this boy with no hair even grow to disgust us?"

The shorter accountant also sneered coldly and ignored Chen Chen.

Chen Chen was speechless. He was just telling the truth. He never expected that he would offend these two accountants.

"These two gentlemen are overthinking. I didn't mean to mess with the two seniors. I just really saw something wrong in the account books. I'm just telling the truth."

Chen Chen said politely and politely.

But his simple words made the two gentlemen furious again.

"Where did you come from, you little boy with a yellow mouth? Are you saying that our accounting clerk who has been working for decades is not as good as your little boy who doesn't even have a single hair on his head?"

"How old are you? We eat more salt than you eat rice. When I was the accountant, you were still wearing crotchless pants."

The tall accountant mocked unceremoniously.

"Hmph, so what if you eat too much salt? Now it's time to settle accounts, not eat salt."

"Master Jiayu all praises Chen Chen as a talented person. Could it be that Master Jiayu is not as good as you?"

Shen Qian saw Chen Chen being ridiculed and defended Chen Chen on the spot.

Master Jiaoyu's name is easy to use. After hearing Shen Qian's words, the two accountants did not dare to blame Chen Chen loudly.

"This little girl, please tell me that this boy is good at studying, but it doesn't mean that he can also settle accounts!"

"Look at the business code on this account book. It's different from the usual characters. How can he understand it?"

The short accountant took a ledger and handed it to Shen Qian, pointing to the character "〨" on it, trying to embarrass them.

"This old gentleman, if he doesn't understand, how can he know what's wrong?"

"Besides, we are only here to help the old shopkeeper, not to mess with your affairs."

"There are only a few of us here. Even if Chen Chen is right, it won't spread."

Shen Qian smiled at the short accountant, and then spoke rationally.

She took the account book and handed it to Chen Chen.

"Chen Chen, tell them what this word is? Make them look down on you."

Shen Qian knew Chen Chen. If Chen Chen was not sure, he would not say that there was something wrong with the account book.

Chen Chen took the account book and looked at it.

He thought to himself: What's the problem? Isn't this the number eight used to keep accounts in ancient times? No matter how bad he is, he can still recognize the numbers from one to ten.

This short accountant looks down on people too much and uses this number to test people.

In this case, Chen Chen was no longer polite, so he sarcastically said: "Mr. Eight, I really don't know what this word is? Please teach Mr. Eight."

Everyone was confused. What was Chen Chen talking about Mr. Eighth?

Only the short accounting clerk suppressed his blush, his veins popped out, and he was extremely angry.

"Boy Chen, don't talk about other things? Come on, tell me what's wrong with this account book."

The old shopkeeper also noticed something was wrong with the short man and changed the subject.

"Okay, let me give it to the shopkeeper to analyze it carefully."

Chen Chen flipped up the account book and walked towards the old shopkeeper.

Seeing how confident Chen Chen was, the two shopkeepers also followed Chen Chen over.

"Old shopkeeper, take a closer look, how much more pork was purchased today? It's three times more than usual."

Chen Chen pointed to the quantity of pork purchased on a certain day and said confidently.

"Haha, I thought I found something. Why is this so strange? Maybe business was particularly good that day."

The tall accountant made sarcastic remarks again.

"Mr. Qi, what day is it now?"

Chen Chen replied with a sneer.

The tall accountant was so angry that his face turned red and he was about to explode.

But when he saw that day, he couldn't help but lower his head like a defeated fighting cock and walked aside dejectedly.

When the old shopkeeper saw that day, his face darkened.

That day is the Tomb Sweeping Day. According to the custom of Xu County, most people will go to the mountains to worship their ancestors on that day and will not come to restaurants to eat at all.

"Old shopkeeper, look at the price of pheasants. It's a full two-thirds higher than usual. It's as high as 35 cents per chicken, while it's only [-] cents normally."

Chen Chen pointed to the price of pheasants on a certain day and spoke to the old shopkeeper.

The old shopkeeper was so angry that his face turned red and he was speechless for a long time.

The two accountants lowered their heads in shame, as if they were sick chickens.

The old shopkeeper stayed for a long time before slowly calming down.

He took out a piece of silver and handed it to Chen Chen, saying, "Boy from the Chen family, take this piece of silver and treat it as your reward. I hope you can keep today's matter a secret."

Chen Chen knew that the old shopkeeper was chasing customers, so he took Shen Qian out of the private room.

"Chen Chen, you are awesome. You found out the problems that the old shopkeeper couldn't find."

Shen Qian said happily.

Mr. Accountant may have missed this practical issue.

But the old shopkeeper, who has been a shopkeeper for decades, can't find any problems.

It's just that the person who embezzled something is unusual, and he just doesn't want to find out by himself.

So Chen Chen smiled bitterly and said to Shen Qian: "Chen Qian, we promised the old shopkeeper to keep it secret, so don't talk about this matter again."

Shen Qian had no choice but to suppress her curiosity and follow Chen Chen outside the restaurant.

"Chen Chen, it's really you! You thought I had the wrong person."

As soon as Chen Chen and Shen Qian walked out of the restaurant, they were suddenly stopped by a young man.